NAM Operational Excellence Leader

Company Overview: Flowserve is a global manufacturer of pumps, valves, seals, and aftermarket services, delivering comprehensive flow control solutions that support essential industries such as energy, clean water, and pharmaceuticals. If you're looking for a culture built on ingenuity, innovation, and excellence, Flowserve offers the opportunity to put your experience in motion. Whether you're an individual contributor or a people leader, you'll find meaningful opportunities for professional growth, competitive rewards, and a workplace grounded in our core values: People, Safety, Integrity, Ownership and Ingenuity. At Flowserve, we're inspired by what we can achieve together—creating extraordinary flow control solutions that strengthen today's world while building tomorrow. Role Summary: The NAM Operational Excellence Leader will lead a consistent and rapid LEAN deployment, providing leadership for CI initiatives, assessing current business performance, identifying gaps, establishing and implementing improvement plans, monitoring progress, and sharing best-in-class ideas and processes. In this role, you will utilize CI to achieve and exceed business objectives and build plant confidence in the acceptance of change management and performance improvements while maintaining a focus on customer satisfaction and the quality of performance. Responsibilities: Be the facility lead practitioner, coach, teacher, trainer and consultant in developing, supporting, and leading CI culture within your site and across Flowserve as requiredFacilitate CI actions and employee involvement teams throughout the platform / site and across all functional areas in the pursuit of sustained beneficial changeImplement a train-the-trainer approach and rapid, sustained implementation through learn by doing methodsFacilitate improvement implementation through employee teams, CI events, team improvement projects and LEAN Enterprise training workshopsProvide local leadership, coaching and training in LEAN thinking, processes and productionCo-create, sustain, revise and measure progress on the Business Area CI Plan that contributes to future stateFocus teams on CI by involving people in meeting productivity and site / platform objectivesIdentify opportunities to implement common processes and best practices from other facilities within Platforms and across FlowserveDisseminate and act upon relevant industry and corporate benchmarking dataEnsure that benefits related to CI initiatives are calculated according to corporate standards and are ultimately achieved within targeted time spanEnsure that planned improvements are implemented, measured, driven to closure and crossed to operating resultsOther duties as assigned Requirements: BS or BA Degree in relevant field and 8-10+ years relevant experienceExperience in an industrial manufacturing environmentSix Sigma Black Belt, Green Belt or LEAN CertifiedIndustry or Business experience where LEAN or Operational Excellence is core to the businessDemonstrated Change Management experienceStrong facilitation experienceAn interest in process and quality improvementProblem solving tools (Fishbone, 5 Why’s/ Ishikawa, Pareto Analysis, and Stratification)Knowledge in statistics tools and problem solvingAble to work with/across all functional areas and all levels of the businessExcellent verbal, written and facilitation communication skillsHighly Proficient in the use of MS Office tools (Excel and PowerPoint in particular) Preferred: Previous manufacturing experienceExperience using PowerBI Flowserve offers competitive pay, annual bonuses, medical benefits on day 1, generous paid vacation time, paid holidays, 401(k) and many other excellent benefits! Req ID : R-19387 Job Family Group : Strategy Job Family : ST Flowserve Business System EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. Flowserve will also not discriminate against an applicant or employee for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-workers. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access flowservecareers.com as result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an email to employment@flowserve.com. In order to quickly respond to your request, please use the words "Accommodation Request" as your subject line of your email. For more information, read the Accessibility Process.